Electronic Arts has again secured the top three spots on NPD Techworld's weekly and monthly lists of best-selling PC games. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, EA's adventure game based on the blockbuster J.K. Rowling fantasy novel of the same name, took the number-one spot on the December list, followed by The Sims: Hot Date virtual-life game expansion in second place and the virtual-life game The Sims in third. Infogrames' popular theme-park management game RollerCoaster Tycoon came in fourth place, followed by Sony's latest online role-playing game expansion, EverQuest: The Shadows of Luclin, in fifth place.

EA captured the top three spots on the latest weekly list as well, with Hot Date taking number one, followed by Harry Potter and The Sims in second and third. RollerCoaster Tycoon took fourth place, and Activision's first-person shooter Return to Castle Wolfenstein came in fifth place.

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